Baños del Flaco Formation

The Baños del Flaco Formation is a Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous (Tithonian to Berriasian geologic formation in central Chile. The formation comprises limestones and sandstones deposited in a shallow marine to fluvial environment.[1][2] Fossil ornithopod tracks have been reported from the formation.[3]

Baños del Flaco Formation
Stratigraphic range: Tithonian-Berriasian
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TypeGeological formation
Unit ofMendoza Group
Lithology
PrimarySandstone
OtherLimestone
Location
Coordinates34.8°S 70.5°W / -34.8; -70.5
Approximate paleocoordinates33.0°S 33.4°W / -33.0; -33.4
RegionO'Higgins Region
Country Chile
Type section
Named forBaños del Flaco
Baños del Flaco Formation is located in Chile
Baños del Flaco Formation
Baños del Flaco Formation (Chile)

Fossil content

Among others, the following fossils have been found in the formation:[4]

Ichnofossils

See also

References

  1. Leonardi, 1994, p.65
  2. Baños del Flaco Formation at Fossilworks.org
  3. Weishampel et al., 2004, pp.517-607
  4. Termas del Flaco at Fossilworks.org

Bibliography

  • Leonardi, Giuseppe. 1994. Annotated Atlas of South America Tetrapod Footprints (Devonian to Holocene) with an appendix on Mexico and Central America, 1–248. Ministerio de Minas e Energia - Companhia de Pesquisa de Recursos Minerais, Geological Service of Brazil. Accessed 2019-03-25.
  • Weishampel, David B.; Peter Dodson, and Halszka Osmólska (eds.). 2004. The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, 1–880. Berkeley: University of California Press. Accessed 2019-02-21.ISBN 0-520-24209-2

Further reading

  • C. Salazar and W. Stinnesbeck. 2016. Tithonian–Berriasian ammonites from the Baños del Flaco Formation, central Chile. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 14:149-182
  • A. P. Larrain and L. Biró-Bagóczky. 1985. New Pygurus (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) from the Tithonian of central Chile: first record from the Jurassic of the southern hemisphere. Journal of Paleontology 59(6):1409-1413
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